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FIGURES OF AMERICA'S PART IN
WAR PASS ALL FORMER RECORDS
Col. Leonard P. Ayers Prepares a Remarkable Statistical Summary
Showing Comparative Costs In Men, Money and Material
for All the Countries Engaged Cost to the United
States Is $22,000,000,000.
, Washington. The wnr cost the
United States directly about $22,000,
000,000, or nearly enough to pay. the
entire cost of running the American
government from 1T91 up to the out
break of the European war. For every
hundred American soldiers and sail
ors who served in the war with Ger
many two were killed or died of dis
ease during the period of hostilities.
The number of men serviug In the
armed forces of the nation during the
war was 4,800,000, of whom 4,000,000
served In, the army.
These facts are set forth In a sta
tistical summary of "The "War With
Germany," compiled under the direc
tion of Col. Leonard P. Ayers, elder of
the statistics branch of the general
staff of the army.
This summary, just published by
Colonel Ayers by direction of the sec
retary of war, is a complete review of
America's participation in the war
against Germany condensed into less
than 150 pages. It is a detailed sum
mary of American military operations,
and yet the long statistical tables
usually found 1U official reports are
entirely lacking.
Col. Leonard P. Ayers is the only of
ficer from civilian life who has risen
to the position of chief of a division
of the general staff. Before the war
he was a director of the Russell Sage
Foundation. He was chief statistical
officer of the peace -committee. After
his return here he received the dis
tinguished service medal.-
Some of the Figures.
Some of the statistical summaries
In the report show :
The war cost the United States con
siderably more than 51,000,000 an hour
for over two years.
America's expenditures in the war
were sufficient to have carried on the
Revolutionary war continuously for
more than a thousand years at the
rate of expenditure which that war
actually Involved.
During the first three months ex
penditures were at the rate of ?2,000,
000 a day. During the next year they
averaged more than $22,000,000 n day.
For the final ten months the daily
average was over $44,000,000.
The total war costs of all nations
were about $180,000,000,000, of which
the allies and the United States spent
two-thirds and the enemy one-third.
The three nations spending the
greatest amounts were Germany,
Great Britain and France, in that or
der. After them come the United
States and Austria-Hungary, with sub
stantially equal expenditures.
The United States spent about one-
eighth of the. entire cost of the war
Orphaned Fawn Adopts
Man as Its Guardian
Williamsport, ' Pa. George
Hummel, a resident of Liberty,
while fishing at the head of
Gray's run, heard a fawn bleat
ing in the woods up the moun
tain side, and upon investiga
tion came upon a strange sight.
On the ground lay a dead doe
with a dead fawn by her side,
while a live fawn stood guard
nearby. The live" animal had
worn a path where It had trot
ted around the body of the moth
er. There were no bullet holes
in the carcass. Mr. Hummel had
some cookies in his pocket
which he fed to the little fawn,
and the animal followed him
home, apparently content ,that it.
had found a friend. Mr. IIum-:
mel reported the case to a game
protector and Is caring for the
fawn.
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and something less than one-fifth of
the expenditures of the allied side.
Tho total battle deaths of nil na
tions In this war were greater llmu nil
deaths In all the wars lu the previous
hundred years.
Russlau buttle deuths were 34 times
as heavy as those of the United
States, those of Germany 32 times as
great, France 28 times and tlio Brit
ish IS times as large.
Infantry Suffered Most.
In the American army the casualty
rate in the Infantry was higher than
in any other service, and that for oili
cers was higher than for men.
For every man killed In battle seven
were wounded.
Five out of every six men sent to
hospitals ou account of wounds wore
cured and returned to duty.
Pneumonia killed more soldier than
were killed in battle. Meningitis win
the next most serious disease.
Tho British sent more men to
France In their first year of wnr than
we did In our first year, but it took
England three yenrs to reach a
strength of 2,000,000 men In France,
and the United States accomplished it
in one-half of that time.
In the physical examinations the
states of the middle West made the
best showing. Country boys did better
than city boys, white better than col
ored and native better than foreign
born.
Most of the troops who sailed for
France left New York. Half of thorn
landed In England and the other half
In France.
Of every 100 Americans who went
over, 49 went In British ships, 43 in
American ships, three in Italian, two
in French nnd one. In Russian ship
ping under English control.
American cargo ships averaged one
complete trip every 70 days and troop
ships one complete trip every 35 days.
The cargo fleet was almost entirely
American. It reached the size of 2,
000,000 deadweight tons, and carried
to Europe about 7,500,000 tons of
cargo.
Work of Engineers.
American engineers built In France
83 new ship berths, 1,000 miles of
standard gauge track and 538 miles of
narrow gauge track.
The 6ignnl corps strung In France
100,000 miles of telephone nnd tele
graph wire.
Trior to the armistice 40.000 trucks
were shipped to the forces In Frnnce.
Construction projects In the United
States co"st twice as much as the Pana
ma canal, nnd construction overseas
was on nearly twice as large a scale.
The entire number of American ma
chine guns produced to the end of 1918
was 227,000.
The Browning machine guns are be
lieved to be more effective than the
corresponding weapons used In any
other army.
American production of rifle ammu
nition amounted to approximately 3,
500,000,000 rounds, of which 1,500,000,
000 rounds were shipped overseas.
The number of rounds of complete
artillery ammunition produced In
American plants was In excess of 20,
000,000, compared with 9,000,000
rounds secured from the French and
British.
In the first 20 months after the dec
laration of. war by each country the
British did better , than the. United
States in the production of light artil
lery, and the United States excelled
them In producing heavy artillery uud
both light and heaty ammunition.
' At the end of the war American pro
duction of smokeless powder was 45
per cent greater tbnathe French nnd
British production , combined.. The
American production of high explo
sives"was 40 per- cent greater than
Great Britain's and nearly double that
of France.
" Out ' of every hundred days that
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BRITISH-AIRSHIP PREPARING TO FLY TO INDIA
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Tho R-33, sister ship to the R-34 which recently made the flight to the
United States and back to England, Is reported to be making preparations for
a flight to India. The photograph shows drums being hoisted aboard the R-33
prior to the airship's 31-hour trip over the British Isles. Insert is a portrait
of Cupt. M. G. Thomas, her commander.
Pr. Salas Marehan. prominent t'hll
pan scholar, wln with his wife Is la
this country stu.lvtni; the t-diK'nt Imnil
system for the benellt of Ms govern-ment.
American combat divisions were li;
lino In France they were supported by
their own artillery for 75 ilnys, by
British artillery for live days mid by
French for one and a half days.
In round numbers, Amcrii'M had In j
France S,o(K) pieces of artillery, of j I
which nearly .100 were made In Ainer-j
lea, and Americans used on the lltinn
line 2,250 pieces, of wldcti over lmt
were made In America.
Airplane Production.
When the United States entered the;
war the allies made the designs of
their planes available to Americans,'
and before the end of hostilities fur-1
nlshed from their own manufacture.
3,800 service planes. ,
Aviation training schools In tin
United States graduated 8,(!o2 men
from elementary courses and 4.0JSI
from advanced courses. Mnre than 5,
000 pilots and observers w ere sent ,
overseas. i
There were produced In tin? United
States to November .'SO, litis, more j
than 8,000 training planes and more
than 10,000 training engines. .
The American air force at the front
grew from three squadrons In April to
45 in November, 11)18. (in November
11 the 45 squadrons had an equipment
of 740 planes.
Of 2,098 planes sent to the zone of
the advance for American aviators,
007, or nenrly one-fourth, were of
American production.
American air squadrons brought
down In combat 755 enemy plunes,
wliile their own losses of planes num
bered only 357.
American divisions were In battle
for 200 days and engaged In 13 major
operations.
From the middle of August, until the
end of the war the American divisions
hold during the greater part of the
time a front longer than that held by
the British.
In October the American divisions
hold 101 miles of lino, or 23 per cent of
tho entire western front.
In the battle of St Mililel 550,000
Americans were engaged, compared
with about 100,000 on the northern
side in the buttle of Gettysburg. The
artillery fired more than 1,000,000
shells, In four hours, which is the most
Intense concentration of artillery flre
recorded in history.
The Mcuse-Argonne bntlle lasted for
47 days,' during which 1,200,000 Ameri
can troops were engaged.
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WRESTLING PARSON IN ARMY
Soldiers Throwny by Chaplain Currie
of Second Division Promise to
Go to Church.
With, the American Forces In Ger
many. Chaplain K. S. Currie of the
Second division bus become known
among the American forces on the
IUiiuo as "the wrestling parson" In
his go-to-church campaign, which ),
inaugurated recently among the sol
diers. .Chaplain Currie has been putting on
an exhibition In Loutesdorf every
night the last few weeks, and ouch
man bo throws promises to induce
five other soldiers to accompany him
to church the Sunday following the
wrestling match.
The contests have been heM th(,
Letitesdorf playhouse. Chaplain Cur
rie has been taking on different men
from the Third battalion of tho sixth
mnptnnll sinrY. hll.t ' '
vu mum. UCports t ()
chaplain's office of the Second
vision say mat Chaplain Can
Deen winning about 75
the matches.
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